Love it or hate it, Valentine's Day is right around the corner. Over at Mommybloggers, we asked some of our friends to share their thoughts on love. We gave them the chance to define "love" and we crossed our fingers. The response was simply breathtaking.

Over the next four days, we will be posting over forty essays, ranging from hilarious one-liners to deep explorations of loss and love. When we started Mommybloggers, we've worked to expose the diversity of the writers who are called "mommybloggers" - over the next four days, you'll have the chance to meet these remarkable writers, and read some truly amazing stories. I hope that you'll take the time to visit their blogs, and add them to your blogrolls.

We are excited to share this wonderful collection with you. We are posting a new essay every hour during the day, so keep on coming back.

We encourage you to participate - if you post a "love" entry on your blog, link to Mommybloggers and let us know. We'll be creating a master entry with links to entries appearing outside of Mommybloggers.com. As always, if we missed you in this invite, please drop us a line and let us know you'd like to participate in a future roundup.

Enjoy!